Random thoughts about SharePoint and other technologies

This post is adapted from a blog, that I consider the supreme authority for FBA configuration, written by Chris Coulson, Read the supreme authority here for 2016 and here for 2013 2010 – See the 2013 steps, make sure the … Read More

In a previous post, I mentioned the steps to least privilege the Distributed Cache; but, I really never explained the steps, I only gave the powershell. In this post, I’ll explain the steps and provide the powershell for each of … Read More

Have you ever wanted to find out a list of various event ID’s and output them to a file? Have you ever wanted to know about resource exhaustion events, Event ID 2004? Have you wanted to know when your server … Read More

We were recently faced with this scenario: Migrate a SQL Server Reporting Service from SharePoint 2013 On-Premise to another On-Premise farm running in your datacenter or in either Azure or AWS. It does not matter which one, it only matters that … Read More

Have you ever had a blast from the past and looked for a script on configuring SharePoint 2013 Foundation? Before you run the scripts below, you need to install the binaries. Todd Klindt has an awesome blog post where … Read More

Crazy Cake history To Celebrate my dad’s 80th Birthday, my family convened at this cottage located in Western Michigan, about 200 meters east of Lake Michigan. It was in the woods. My mom made my dad’s, and mine, favorite cake. … Read More

There are a lot of really good resources out there to learn PowerShell! One of the best ways to learn is to watch someone else do something and then do it yourself. When you take lessons on any sort of … Read More

Russ Maxwell has written, another, totally, awesome script! This one will help you when you’re troubleshooting an issue. Here’s a link to the original post It works with SharePoint 2010-2016 It allows you to reproduce the issue with logging dialed … Read More

Happy SharePoint Saturday everyone!!! <– (I must’ve written this on a Saturday on my break at work) This script is just the script written by Russ Maxwell in 2013 – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/russmax/2013/04/01/why-sharepoint-2013-cumulative-update-takes-5-hours-to-install/ and then updated for SharePoint 2016 by replacing OSearch15, … Read More

This is the SharePoint 2013 version of the post I put up a few hours ago about SharePoint 2010 service applications. The database names are still hard-coded. Please, feel free to take this and make it better by creating variables … Read More

This post takes after the post I had written in 2013. And now that I’m older and wiser, I know better than rolling up search inside the same IIS application pool as the rest of the SharePoint Service Applications. The … Read More